| Name | Flashback  |
|---|---|
| Type | Instant |
| Description | Target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) |
| Flavor | Quintorius found that every new discovery motivated him to keep exploring. |
| Artist | Flavio Greco Paglia |
| Set | Secrets of Strixhaven #115 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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Flashback, Instant, designed by Flavio Greco Paglia first released in Apr, 2026 in the set Secrets of Strixhaven and was printed exactly in 2 different ways.
A one‑mana red instant that grants flashback to an instant or sorcery in your graveyard would primarily benefit spell‑dense graveyard decks, such as Izzet Phoenix, Storm, Prowess, or other spellslinger/combo archetypes that naturally fill the graveyard and want to reuse efficient spells for value or combo turns; it’s especially strong with cheap cantrips, rituals, or burn spells, effectively turning your graveyard into an extension of your hand for a turn. However, in most formats this effect is likely outclassed by **Snapcaster Mage** (which provides a body and flexibility at instant speed), **Past in Flames** (a stronger combo engine in Storm decks), or even **Underworld Breach** (which is dramatically more powerful and abusable), making this card more fair and role‑player level rather than format‑defining. It could see play in low‑curve red combo or midrange spell decks that want redundancy for recursion effects, especially in formats without access to stronger options, but in high‑
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